"Travel on the roads of Gaza, which were closed to Palestinian traffic for years, exposes the full dimensions of the physical destruction Israel left behind. A thousand words and a thousand images cannot describe it. That's not because of the weakness of words and photos, but because of the ability of most Israelis not to see and not to grasp the extent of the vineyards and groves and orchards and fields that the people's army of Israel turned into desert, the green that it painted yellow and gray, the sand turned over and the exposed land, the thorns, the weeds."
Amira Hass, Haaretz, September 22
And how do pro-Israel supporters feel about this?
"Sixty-one women have given birth at Israeli checkpoints since 2000 due to delays in getting through the checkpoints, and 36 of their babies died as a result, the United Nations said on Thursday."
Amira Hass, Haaretz, September 22
And how do pro-Israel supporters feel about this?
"Sixty-one women have given birth at Israeli checkpoints since 2000 due to delays in getting through the checkpoints, and 36 of their babies died as a result, the United Nations said on Thursday."
4 Comments:
Please tell me you don't believe all the story of births at checkpoints are false.
If you do...oh dear.
Depends how much you trust what the UN and the PA says about Israel.
More than half the babies born dying as a result? Do the people who wrote it also believe their deaths spike just before passover? (Um, don't answer that)
"Discrediting" would assume that claiming that over half of the babies dying is credible in the first place.
Antony Loewenstein said...
Please tell me you don't believe all the story of births at checkpoints are false.
If you do...oh dear.
How many are false? How many actually died? Gaza has the highest birth rate on earth, or at least it did a years or so ago. With that incredible high birth rate, it certainly is possible that 10% of all women were pregnant. And with the poverty being the highest in the arab world, is there any wonder that the babies would have died regardless of where they were born?
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